• Ledivin@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    What does a French policeman shooting a child have anything to do with a World War? This is all internal to a single country, and one that isn’t even in the top 10 most active in current conflicts.

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      29 days ago

      It’s partially a joke made out of fear. A nuclear power is at war with a country in Europe right now. Other nuclear powers are actively supporting the defense of the attacked country. Another nuclear power is very likely to launch its own offensive against a little island it claims is it’s this decade. Politicians parroting fascist talking points are gaining power all around the world. You can see the cause for the fear, no?

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        28 days ago

        Yes, I can see the cause for fear in all of these events. I also really like bagels.

        Are we just stating random facts, or are you going to link this event to the ones you listed in some way?

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          28 days ago

          I mean a state actor gunning down a civilian and getting more public support than the victim sounds pretty linked to the rise in authoritarianism that could very well plunge the world into conflict to me

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          Such incidents are typically symptomatic of deeper, systemic problems.

          Deep, systemic problems undermine the stability of a polity.

          Unstable polities are more likely to make irrational choices in an attempt to stabilize themselves.

          Such irrational choices often lead to some high-quality international level game-theory style consequences.

          When the systemic problems are rooted in a system that is widely used across a swathe of countries, and is systemically failing in much the same way… well… that’s a recipe for some ‘interesting times’.

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      29 days ago

      Bots pushing a narrative, mate.

      Estimates put em as high as 1:3, and sometimes higher depending on platform.

      And that doesn’t include the rube demographic, who is absorbing that agit-prop and regurgitating it